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mircea_popescu: Pedalavo come se fuggissi, e in realta fuggivo, da lei, da quelle emozioni, da i sogni, da i ricordi, da tutto. E pensavo che dovevo dimenticare. Ero certo che sarei riuscito a dimenticare. Ma oggi che sono vecchio, che ho consumato banalmente la vita, talchè ho conosciuto tante donne che m'hanno detto "ricordati di me" e io le ho scordate tutte, ancora oggi lei, l'unica che non ho mai dimenticato... Sutakora Sassa!
☟︎ mircea_popescu: and i thought it must be some sort of famous tune or w/e ? turns out, no ?
mircea_popescu: this is how all those fancy interlocking metal slav collars get made.
mircea_popescu: i dunno, maybe it's my time looking at ega gfx and appreciating golden axe music on the 8 bit case speaker
mircea_popescu: i can't help but think i'm so blessed to not care about fan noise, loudspeakers, monitors et all.
mircea_popescu: give people pictures of you sitting on your casechair for $20 or w/e.
mircea_popescu: "first of its kind game of thrones case ; 1/4 ton copper alloy, blades"
mircea_popescu: (things are used widely in machining to find problems with mechanical movement prototypes)
mircea_popescu: i think the "slippery when wet" thing is much needed instruction for otaku.
mircea_popescu: " 1]To whomever is now going to say "it's server fault, deedbot should output GPG signed material with proper mimetype like application/pgp-signature". I can only recommend frontal lobotomy by robot that fetches its instructions with wget." << i lolled.
mircea_popescu: nobody is used to the idea that fuck up and it's your ass. not anymore. because hey, "that's no way to live".
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> no one wants to LIVE badly enough << sadly, this is ~true.
mircea_popescu: yeah, it metastasized into idiocy, but originally it's the very logical observation that the draw needed to make sales in b2b is much larger than consumer.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, this trap is what informs the vc circus' derpage about "big" bla bla.
mircea_popescu: but otherwise, it's not workable, and it wouldn't be workable for trump.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: so importantly - understand that it's in no sense a matter of 'stop being you, be somebody else'. anyone else would confront the same exact problem,, which is to say that this is not able to stand on its own. would work superbly as an add-on product of a company offering this kinbd of thing that can x-sell it.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: i wouldn't take this failure to be more informative than it is. the technology never entered into discussion, it failed on economic grounds.
mircea_popescu: just the fact that i have toi make an entry in my phonebook is $$$.
mircea_popescu: just so the cost of dealing with some dude is not 0 in any sense.
mircea_popescu: much like the cost to send bitcoin txn, that random derps imagine to be "=fee" is in fact something like 0.5 to 5 btc PER TX, if you include EVERYTHING ytou need to run bitcoin payments,
mircea_popescu: this is a large part of the problem. there's a hidden barrier to entry here, that is the "cost to enter wot". ie, as a manager of x item, i MAY consider dealing wioth nobody. but not over anything.
mircea_popescu: not to say it is your fault, tho. but i can see why it didn't sell, needn't any conspiracy to explain it.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you forget that in a previous lifetime i made a lot of money out of insepcting and changing production workflow.
mircea_popescu: "the cost for its deployment includes me spending a month fucking up yoru shit, which is about 10k or so, and our fee, which is 2500 a year"
mircea_popescu: ok, so what i'll say is, "this machine, once deployed, would improve your workflow by about 15%, which is worth about 50k or so. it could also be had hiring techs, at a cost of about 60k a year for the machine's lifespan"
mircea_popescu: <mircea_popescu> now, your addon, if deployed would, for the average usecase, provide an improvement of what ? 10% ? 50% ? 300% ?
mircea_popescu: and in other news, omfg this provolone is magnificent.
mircea_popescu: seeing all the recent scandals with falsifications etc, i'd be much surprised if they even run the equipment anymore, so yeah.
mircea_popescu: anyway, if you don't have the experience to discuss typical, discuss case study. the one time you tried this.
mircea_popescu: i don't care how fucking different they are. typical case will be had or the sky falls.
mircea_popescu: it is, much like the "average voter", "median consumer" etc, a fiction, made by some methods.
mircea_popescu: looky : a "typical case" is a convention, allowing management to make judgements.
mircea_popescu: i have no idea, but that doesn't mean it's not your job to.
mircea_popescu: now, your addon, if deployed would, for the average usecase, provide an improvement of what ? 10% ? 50% ? 300% ?
mircea_popescu: maybe the economics are just not there, let's try and quantify this.
mircea_popescu: "putting final gravestone" and writing the above story are not the same.
mircea_popescu: "here's how we tried - and failed - to do somerthing useful"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform for my own curiosity, was this ever on, say, slashdot ?
mircea_popescu: my previous idea of "normally this is how this sort of thing gets killed"
mircea_popescu: you wouldn't expect to come out of your bosses' cake, on a day's notice, would you.
mircea_popescu: you have to understand, this is an actual job, exactly as respectable as whore.
mircea_popescu: while i am not actually saying "well that's why", do bear in mind you're a miserable closer.
mircea_popescu: when you say "we did pitch" do you mean, you went into the room, or did you hire someone who does this professionally ?
mircea_popescu: seems to me a 50% speed gain in high thoroughput research would be worth money.
mircea_popescu: PeterL get him in room to pitch his thing, make 15% or w/e ? asciilifeform you should prolly hire someone to make the pitch tho.
mircea_popescu: (well really, it'd be more like "i'd like your x rebased for my tree, here it is, you see problem ?", but w/e)